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Sun & Moon

January 1980

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Cover of Sun & Moon, January 1980

Issue Details

Issue
1
PDF pages
43

Summary

This special SUN & MOON publication presents itself as a commemorative volume marking the third anniversary of Nichigetsusha and as the first volume of the Tomoe / Egara Collection. Its editorial identity is strongly retrospective and photographic: the cover assembles numerous images from bondage and sadomasochistic photo sessions, while the contents page organizes the issue around named photographers, models, staged scenarios, and an extended sequence of color and black-and-white pictorial features. A short commemorative essay by Seta Kaiichi opens the volume, reflecting on the development of Nichigetsusha and SUN & MOON, followed by the formal contents.

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The principal body is dominated by staged erotic photography rather than long-form prose. The contents identify early features such as Making the SUN & MOON Cover, Immersed in Pleasure, Hot Winds Swirled in the Scorching Room!!, Proxy Wife Misako, and Volunteering for Training: Kitajima Taeko. The largest sustained visual section is the special color graph titled Awareness of Innate Disposition and the Desire for Intoxication, photographed by Takamatsu Kosei. Across the surviving color sequence, domestic interiors become theatrical spaces for rope restraint, seated and reclining poses, floor arrangements, board-mounted compositions, and bathroom scenes. Everyday household surroundings are repeatedly transformed into carefully staged environments for bondage imagery.

Subsequent contents continue this photographic emphasis through Mrs. S, Pet Miko, Drawn to Utamaro, Practice: My Secret Notebook, Pregnant Beauty: Pleasure in the Bondage Cage, and Bewitching Flower in the Bath: Watanabe Yoshimi. Photographers including Seta Kaiichi, Onuki Koji, Nakamiya Sakae, and Arakawa Yasushi recur, giving the issue the character of a studio retrospective as much as a conventional magazine. The later pages shift from color to a stark black-and-white sequence headed The Underground Aesthete Surfaces, photographed by Shima Shiko. Numbered Roman images continue this feature through a sequence of restrained poses before the issue closes with promotional material for Nichigetsusha publications.

Taken as a whole, the issue functions as an anniversary portfolio of SUN & MOON’s visual culture. Its recurring concerns are bondage as photographic composition, the transformation of ordinary interiors into erotic stages, the relationship between model and photographer, and the construction of recurring female personae through named pictorial series. The formal contents and photographer credits also make the publication useful for tracing the network of image-makers associated with Nichigetsusha at the end of the 1970s.

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Table of Contents 17 items
  1. Commemorating Three Years of Nichigetsusha: A Winding Course by Seta Kaiichi
    1
  2. Greetings by Hayashi Munehiro
    2
  3. Special Feature: Making the SUN & MOON Cover
    3
  4. Immersed in Pleasure by Roppongi Kaoru
    5
  5. Hot Winds Swirled in the Scorching Room!! by Arakawa Yasushi
    12
  6. Proxy Wife Misako by Seta Kaiichi
    18
  7. Volunteering for Training: Kitajima Taeko by Seta Kaiichi
    23
  8. Special Color Graph: Awareness of Innate Disposition and the Desire for Intoxication by Takamatsu Kosei
    33
  9. Mrs. S by Seta Kaiichi
    65
  10. Pet Miko by Seta Kaiichi
    72
  11. Drawn to Utamaro by Seta Kaiichi
    78
  12. Color My Album: Practice, My Secret Notebook by Onuki Koji
    97
  13. Pregnant Beauty: Pleasure in the Bondage Cage by Nakamiya Sakae
    129
  14. Bewitching Flower in the Bath: Watanabe Yoshimi by Seta Kaiichi
    150
  15. The Underground Aesthete Surfaces by Shima Shiko
    168
  16. Making the Yume Photo Record by Arakawa Yasushi
    176
  17. Editorial Postscript and Information
    End matter

Highlights

  • The wraparound cover identifies the publication as a Nichigetsusha third-anniversary special issue, the first Tomoe / Egara collection, and a SUN & MOON supplementary publication, using a dense collage of bondage photographs to establish its retrospective character. (PDF p. 1).
  • Seta Kaiichi's opening essay commemorates Nichigetsusha's third anniversary and reflects on the development of SUN & MOON. (PDF p. 2).
  • The formal printed contents page lists a wide range of photographic features and identifies photographers including Seta Kaiichi, Arakawa Yasushi, Takamatsu Kosei, Onuki Koji, Nakamiya Sakae, Shima Shiko, and others. (PDF p. 3).
  • The extended color feature Awareness of Innate Disposition and the Desire for Intoxication opens with a titled color page and develops through a long sequence of rope-based studio and domestic-interior compositions. (PDF pp. 4–11).
  • The middle color sequences vary the staging through chairs, floor arrangements, furniture-bound poses, and board-mounted compositions, emphasizing photographic arrangement as much as narrative scenario. (PDF pp. 12–27).
  • Later color photography shifts into bent-over and bathroom settings, expanding the issue's recurring use of ordinary domestic spaces as constructed erotic environments. (PDF pp. 28–35).
  • The Underground Aesthete Surfaces introduces a distinct black-and-white photographic sequence marked Roman 1 through Roman 9, creating a tonal and stylistic break from the preceding color material. (PDF pp. 36–42).
  • The final page is a Nichigetsusha promotional page advertising another erotic publication, situating the special issue within the publisher's broader catalog. (PDF p. 43).

Contributors

Named contributors represented in this issue:

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